The town is pretty wild too. Well, in a not wild sort of way - at least in winter.
It's one thing to read most residents live in the same apartment building. For me what really brought it home was seeing for sale flyers on the bulletin board in the coffee shop: "For sale: a table. Questions see Bob in apt 23".
The sight of an indoor playground complete with swing set was fun too.
Isn't Whittier (the town that the tunnel leads to) also interesting in its own right? IIRC, the entire town is in one big building; and in winter everyone is basically shut in. There's a school inside, grocery store, post office, police, fire, etc. etc. Going from memory here.
When I read 2.5 miles I thought that's... not very long? I'm sure I've driven through much longer tunnels in Norway. Turns out I have: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A6rdal_Tunnel
I had no idea it's the longest road tunnel in the world though, that's pretty baller.
This is such a fun tunnel to drive through. The goal is to keep your tires on the wet train tracks and pretend you're a train, but the tracks are trying to eject you constantly. Also the diesel fumes from the locomotive that just went through have not yet been blown out and it smells like a level 4 migraine.
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[ 0.35 ms ] story [ 11.4 ms ] threadIt's the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel in Whittier, Alaska. It was built during WWII and opened up Anchorage to overland travel.
It's one thing to read most residents live in the same apartment building. For me what really brought it home was seeing for sale flyers on the bulletin board in the coffee shop: "For sale: a table. Questions see Bob in apt 23".
The sight of an indoor playground complete with swing set was fun too.
It’s like a Soviet or socialist state in one building. Looks the same too.
There doesn't even seem to be any proposals or discussions for some tunnel projects either, either.
My results for "tunnel proposal usa" are dominated by bullshit like the $13trillion plan to tunnel to London, lol.
8/10 highly recommended.